Over at HiLobrow, io9 contributor Joshua Glenn has been posting scans of books from his collection that include the letter X in their titles. Not surprisingly, many are scifi. Where are all the X titles of today, I wonder?
Jack Kirby, From The Radium Age To The Psychedelic Age
Jack Kirby helped to shape modern comic books as we know them. Want to understand how Kirby changed the face of comics with ideas from Radium Age scifi? Joshua Glenn explains it all to you.
Listen To Radium Age Science Fiction Classics
If you love science fiction from the early twentieth century, you're going to gobble up the Hilobrow podcast series, where people read excerpts from classics of the Radium Age, while theramin player Peggy Nelson serves up weird
Frank Herbert's Greatest Influence Was Rachel Carson
Inspired by the late Frank Herbert's birthday yesterday, io9 pal Joshua Glenn posted an interesting meditation on the awesomeness of Dune over on Hilobrow. He talks about the social issues Herbert was responding to, and writes:
Buy a Genuine Coconut Cup from the Asteroid Belt
A bunch of writers decided to conduct an unscientific experiment: Would people pay more for items on eBay if they were offered up for auction with a fictional story explaining their importance? We've written before about this project, called "Significant Objects,"
Alternate Histories Of Objects For Sale On eBay
Would you pay more money for items on eBay if they had interesting stories behind them? A group of writers has determined to find out, by selling objects on eBay that come with fictional alternate histories.
Is Young Adult Fiction the "Slum" of Scifi?
Over the weekend, NY Times science fiction columnist David Itzkoff wondered "how any self-respecting author of speculative fiction can find fulfillment in writing novels for young readers." This didn't sit well with the Boston Globe's Brainiac blogger Joshua Glenn, who writes: "I attempted to disprove . . . Itzkoff's…
Guide to Recent U.S. Generations, Including Elusive Anti-Anti-Utopians
Joshua Glenn, the brains behind Boston Globe blog Brainiac, has written a fascinating essay on U.S. generations — you know, like the Boomers and Generation X, two groups who considered themselves the most futuristic and modern types around. But Glenn argues that there are a lot of hidden generations that haven't…
